Mental Health Training

Opportunity Area Funding available for early years settings, schools and youth organsiations in Peterborough, East Cambridgeshire and Fenland 

We have been working with the Opportunity Area team since 2018 delivering mental health training to an extensive number of staff. This funding enables you to book training for whole staff teams or individual staff members. If you would like more information please email us at [email protected] or download and return the relevant funding form for your area.

Courses will need to be booked by December 2023 or when the funding runs out (whichever is sooner) so be quick!

Peterborough

Fenland East Cambs

 

Our Training Programmes

 

In order to help you decide upon the most appropriate training, we have worked with local services to develop a competency framework which categorises our training according to its content and depth of learning. We also hope that this will simplify the often complex picture of mental health training in a structured and methodical way, and provide a clear framework to equip you with appropriate skills to support your own and other’s mental health.

 

The Competency Framework

 

In order to provide clarity our training is divided into the different stages of the framework. We will also help settings undertake a Training Needs Analysis to ensure content is based on identified needs.  Our training is traditionally accessed by education settings, but is suitable for anyone working with young people.  We also have a range of courses aimed at workplaces to help meet the needs of yourself and colleagues, and can adapt any of the ones listed as required.

Please get in touch to find out more by calling 01733 373187 or email [email protected].

 

NEW – Partner Reward Scheme giving you more benefits for accessing our services; including training discounts, free resources and webinars.

Read Partner Reward Scheme document (232KB, PDF)

 

NEW – First Aid training for adults and young people

 

Stage One – CORE training

 

Stage Two – ENHANCED training

All workshops:

 

One day courses:

 

Free distance learning

Stage Three – TARGETED training

 

All courses:

Other Audiences

 

Parents

Parents and carers are integral to promoting positive mental health in young people and supporting those in need. We can adapt all of our training in the competency framework to parents and carers, specifically the core and enhanced courses. Adaptations may be in the form of content, course length or structure so please get in touch to discuss your bespoke needs. Examples of tailored parent awareness workshops include:

For information about our range of services visit our parent and carer support page

 

Students

 

In order to create a positive well-being culture, mental health needs to be everyone’s business. Student awareness is also central to building resilience and reducing the risk of issues escalating. In addition to parents and staff, students can therefore increase their own mental health competencies through a range of programmes we can offer that are listed below:

 

Core

We can deliver a range of assemblies for all ages covering some basic mental health awareness activities, self-care tips, myths and facts, case studies, videos, supporting others, etc.

 

Campaigns

Visit our Additional Resources pages for more details about our campaigns and to download free resources

 

Awareness workshops / Wellbeing Days / PSHE

If you need support running awareness sessions in schools, we can help. Our trained practitioners can deliver one-off workshops, schemes of work, or even  a whole school awareness day depending on your needs. They can all also be tailored to meet the new PSHE curriculum guidelines.

In addition, we can help you arrange your own awareness days to fundraise for mental health support. Please get in touch to receive our fundraising pack.

 

Enhanced

Specific Topics Workshops – Not only can we offer you awareness sessions, we can also arrange workshops on specific topics such as exam stress, body confidence and anxiety.

 

Targeted

For more details of targeted services for children and young people visit our counselling and therapy or group work and mentoring pages.

First Aid Courses

 

We now have a range of accredited first aid courses for both adults and young people at highly competitive rates!  For more information go to our first aid page 

 

 

Conferences & Key Notes

 

Our expertise in mental health means we have a wealth of knowledge and resources to offer schools, organisations and other settings bespoke key note speakers at existing events or INSET days. We can also arrange full scale mental health conferences and events for groups of schools, trusts and organisations covering a range of topics; as well as organising other speakers as necessary.

 

For more information on either of these courses or to book please call 01733 373187 or email [email protected].

Why us?

We are one of the leading regional providers of mental health training, developed as a result of our long history of supporting young people. Many of our courses have been locally approved and commissioned through the DfE and local authorities.

Courses are all written and delivered by clinical professionals using evidence based approaches and feedback from a range of stakeholders.

They can be delivered both virtually and face to face as appropriate and tailored to the needs of your setting or individuals. We also give delegates access to a range of free Level 2 courses to continue learning and signpost to further opportunities to progress knowledge.

 

Based on more than 7050 delegates trained in 688 settings.

 

  • “Thank you for being adaptable and working with our needs. Very useful.” – (SENCO)
  • “SO useful, honestly the best training I have done for a long time. This has given me and my head so many new ideas to incorporate into our policy and practice. Thank you so much.” – (SENCO / MH lead / SLT)
  • “I found this very useful. It is so useful to have dedicated, significant amount of training time on this. The trainer was confident, skilled, and interesting.” – (History Teacher)
  • “This was a really great session – the Trainer was engaging, reassuring, completely knowledgeable and stimulating. I left the session feeling far more informed, inspired and like I had learnt a lot. Thank you.” – (Trainee teacher)
  • “Very informative course. Thank you.” – (EYFS Leader)

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